Select a news article dealing with economic subject matter from current media publications (newspapers, magazines, or internet) and write a brief “summary” of the article.

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Select a news article dealing with economic subject matter from current media publications (newspapers, magazines, or internet) and write a brief “summary” of the article. Your presentation should be a “summary” of the article and not a “copy-paste” presentation. The summary should be appropriate in length to adequately summarize the information presented in the article. Include appropriate bibliographical citation for the article. The assignment will be worth 50 points and will be graded on the basis of relevance to the economic study, content, and grammatical accuracy.

Paraphrase the sonnet, translating it word-for-word into simple, clear modern English prose.

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Poetry Journal 1 Discussion Forum

Please complete Poetry Journal 1. When complete, submit it to the discussion board for group discussion with your classmates. Remember, to receive full credit for the discussion, you must submit your journal AND respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

Sonnet Journal 1

Meaning and Content (Purpose: to help you understand the meaning of the sonnet)

Paraphrase the sonnet, translating it word-for-word into simple, clear modern English prose. Pay attention to the sentence, not the line, as the principal unit of organization. Look for the main subject and verb to straighten out the syntax where you need to.
Summarize the sonnet into one-or two-sentences.
Context & Tone: Who is speaking and why? What situation or event inspired the poet to write the sonnet? What is the speaker’s attitude towards his topic?

Identify and analyze any similes, metaphors, symbols, understatements, hyperboles, personifications, or paradoxes?

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Sonnet Journal 2

Language (Purpose: to analyze how the poet uses language in the sonnet)

1. Vocabulary: Identify at least three key words in the sonnet, words that seem particularly important or that are unfamiliar to you. Look them up in the dictionary (preferably the Oxford English Dictionary) and write down their most relevant meaning or meanings. What new insights into the sonnet arise from understanding its key words?

2. Imagery: List the images in the sonnet. Do the images relate to each other in some way? Do they forma pattern or cluster together? How do the images develop or clarify the subject?

3. Figurative Language: Identify and analyze any similes, metaphors, symbols, understatements, hyperboles, personifications, or paradoxes? Analyze metaphors with an eye on the thing described, the thing used to describe it, and the connotations of the comparison. How do the figures of speech help articulate the ideas in the sonnet?

4. Biographical and Historical Sources: Identify at least one source of biographical information about your poet and one source about the historical context of the sonnet. Your historical source could provide information about the time the sonnet was written or about historical references that appear in the sonnet.

Write out Works Cited entries in MLA format on each source.

Please share some claiming and granting behaviors you’ve experienced that strengthen how you identify as a leader.

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This is a discussion, not a paper. Please write just by using your own words. Thank You!

Strength is the extent to which you identity with being a leader. When others grant us leadership or when we are successful in leadership endeavors, we strengthen our leader identity. Please share some claiming and granting behaviors you’ve experienced that strengthen how you identify as a leader. Also, discuss the behaviors or experiences that exist in the unfilled in areas – the things that are keeping you from maximizing your leader identity strength. How can you develop those skills?

What are some of the benefits to having an agreement in writing?

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What are some of the benefits to having an agreement in writing? What legal rules apply once the agreement is in writing?

How do you manage your privacy and self-disclosures online?

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Paper Details: Please use the attached template for paper
Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook are undoubtedly dominating the world of online social networking, and the willingness of many users to self-disclose personal information ranging from moods to religious affiliation, relationship status, and personal contact information has led to an increase in privacy concerns. They offer convenient opportunities to stay in touch with friends, family, and coworkers, but are people using them responsibly? Some argue that there are fundamental differences between today’s digital natives, whose private and public selves are intertwined through these technologies, and older generations (Kornblum, 2007).

Even though some colleges are offering seminars on managing privacy online, we still hear stories of self-disclosure gone wrong, such as the football player from the University of Texas who was kicked off the team for posting racist comments about the president or the student who was kicked out of his private, Christian college after a picture of him dressed in drag surfaced on Facebook. However, social media experts say these cases are rare and that most students are aware of who can see what they are posting and the potential consequences (Nealy, 2009). The issue of privacy management on Facebook is affecting parent-child relationships as well. As the website “Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook.” shows, the results can sometimes be embarrassing for the college student and the parent as they balance the dialectic between openness and closeness once the child has moved away.

Instructions
For this assignment, address the following:

How do you manage your privacy and self-disclosures online?
Do you think it is ethical for school officials or potential employers to make admission or hiring decisions based on what they can learn about you online? Why or why not?
Are you or would you be friends with a parent on Instagram, Snapchat, or Facebook? Why or why not? If you already are friends with a parent, did you change your posting habits or privacy settings once they joined? Why or why not?

Watch any ted talk and then write a an essay on it.

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Please watch any ted talk and then write a an essay on it. Its a formal written critique assignment for my fundamental of public speaking class.

Use at least one instance of valid reasoning (i.e., causal, inductive, deductive, analogical).

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Your goal is to influence your audience to effect change in their lives and/or in their communities. Your thesis should be stated as a question of public policy on an issue of social/cultural significance.
Your topic should be socially/culturally significant, timely and one that you find very interesting.
The speech should be six to eight minutes in length.
The introduction and conclusion should be fully developed.
SPEECH ORGANIZATION
The speech should be well organized using some variation of the Problem-Solution organizational pattern
There should be a definite, logical connective/transition bridging each component of the speech.
Each main point should be clearly stated and developed.
Adhere to the principles of clear explanation. Use organizers (signposts, enumeration, acronyms, slogans), emphasis cues, analogies, and repetition as appropriate.

SPEECH DEVELOPMENT
Use at least one instance of valid reasoning (i.e., causal, inductive, deductive, analogical).
Use at least two different methods to establish your credibility with the audience (i.e., sociability, competence, trustworthiness, dynamism).
Use at least one appeal to audience needs and one appeal to audience values.
Cite at least four credible sources in your speech.
At least one sources must be a peer-reviewed journal article.

Focus more on the pros and cons between them and compare each other.

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Non-verbal communication versus Verbal Communication

Each student will find 5 citations from peer review articles and present their findings to the class using a PowerPoint presentation. It is expected that students use APA formatting to apply all of these citations in a clear and concise manner. Focus more on the pros and cons between them and compare each other.

Conduct research on an organizational change that could be implemented to increase competitive advantage.

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The purpose of this assignment is to conduct research on an organizational change that could be implemented to increase competitive advantage.
Select a publicly traded, for-profit company that you think could benefit from making changes to operations, marketing, finance, human resources, logistics, supply chain, or some other area of business function. Begin research about the company by visiting the company website and obtaining a copy of the annual report. Locate three to five additional resources that provide data and information about the organization. You will use this research to determine potential areas for organizational change and to address questions related to planning and managing change within the company. Complete the “Organizational Change Research: Part 1” worksheet.
Continue researching the company using the previous research sources and others that may be needed to address the remaining questions. You will use this research to determine potential areas for organizational change and to address questions related to planning and managing change within the company. Complete the “Organizational Change Research: Part 2” worksheet.

Using the research gathered, develop an organizational change plan and communicate it to relevant stakeholders in a bulleted executive summary (500-750 words) composed of the following sections: summary, introduction, method (if applicable), findings, conclusions, and recommendations. The executive summary must that address the following:
1. Need for change, role of management in change, and importance of change to stakeholders.
2. Change agents and their future role in the organization.
3. Identification of area for change and communication of this information from management to employees and change agents.
4. Identification of two proactive steps the organization needs to take today to avert potential change-related problems.
5. Identification and explanation of significant obstacles that could be encountered by each of the following: management, employees, change agents, and two other significant stakeholders.
6. Identification of two potential sacrifices that the organization might need to make to accomplish the goals/objectives of this organization.
7. The three most essential resources the organization needs to sustain the required changes?
8. Explanation of change management strategies that would help the organization integrate change and the impact of these strategies on organizational outcomes.
9. Discussion or revisions that could be made to the vision and mission statements of the organization.
10. Communication plan identifying techniques and channels to be leveraged to effectively influence the change.
11. Summarize the estimated timeline for plan implementation.

*******Please complete both of the attached Research Worksheets****** The actual essay that you will write will only be 750 words, but I will pay for more words, because the worksheets MUST be filled out, please.